Quiet, honorable, fair man. He played and enjoyed watching football. Loved poetry, literature, music and opera. Worked for the USDA 45 years. Followed cotton checking as it moved West. Loved gardening and fishing in Arkansas. Great at mathematics self-taught. Very kind and gentle self-made man but very masculine and I afraid. Hard worker and a good husband and fantastic father. A truly good man. Methodist and Presbyterian religion. This man lived his religion by his actions in life. A staunch Democrat for life.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...